Grad helped victims' families

7:24 PM,
Nov. 17, 2013

Mark Zaid

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The bombing of the flight, which crashed in Scotland in December 1988 while en route to New York, was to that point the deadliest act of terror against the United States in the country's history. Of the 270 people killed in the attack, 189 were Americans. And two of them were students enrolled at the University of Rochester, who were returning home from a study abroad program.

"It had a particular impact on those of us who had come back the semester before," said Mark Zaid, who was a student at UR at the time of the crash and had spent the previous semester ...